Persuasion Summary

When Persuasion was published posthumously in 1818, only a small circle of people knew of and admired Jane Austen's novels. Since that date, however, Austen has come to be one of the world's most widely read and most beloved authors. She claimed once to her nephew, who would later write her biography, "the little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush produces little effect after much...

Project Gutenberg eBooks (1)

Chapter 1
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire,
was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up
any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation
for an idle hour, and consol...
Read more

Jane Austen Biographies (4)

The English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the most important novelists of the 19th century.In her intense concentration on the thoughts and feelings of a limited number of characters, Jane...
Read more

"It is a truth universally acknowledged," wrote Jane Austen in the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice, "that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." With this st...
Read more

Jane Austen is one of the few novelists in world literature who is regarded as a "classic" and yet is widely read. As the contemporary novelist Fay Weldon puts it, for generations of students and the ...
Read more

Biography EssayJane Austen stands not only as a novelist central to the Romantic period but as one of the supreme prose fiction writers of all literature written in English. Her many admirers include ...
Read more

Essays & Analysis (3)

Both The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter and Persuasion by Jane Austen are constructed as love stories, although not conventional love stories. Austen's novel is part of the cultural movement of Romant...
Read more

In this essay I will discuss how in Persuasion Jane Austen portrays society where, despite conservative resistance, change is underway and how true moral values, can achieve recognition.
Resistance o...
Read more

The effect of social paradigms on individuals in their society is represented in the 1866 novel `Wives and Daughters' by Gaskell and the `95 version of Austens 1818 `Persuasion'. In these texts, the h...
Read more